Polymer adsorption
= Polymer adsorption
<Polymer adsorption> binds a <polymer> near an attractive interface through contacts of some of its <monomers>. The binding <energy> competes with the loss of conformational <entropy>. A chain need not lie flat: noncontacting loops and tails can extend into the <solvent>. In a weak-adsorption blob model, the layer thickness exceeds the <Kuhn length> and local chain statistics remain approximately those of the free chain below that thickness.